I am Christel from Diabetes Strong and this is my Frio review.
The Frio insulin cooler is an easy way to keep your insulin
at the right temperature when you're
traveling, if you're hanging out in the sun, or if you just need an insulin cooling option
when you're out and about.
In this review I’ll be showing you my Frio cooling pouches, I have a few.
I’ll show you what I like about them, and how they can help you keep your insulin or
other heat-sensitive medications at the right temperature
because as you've probably been told
insulin is a sensitive hormone so if we don't treat it right, if you expose it to too high
temperatures, for example, it can go bad,
and if it goes bad it won't lower our blood sugars as expected.
So Frio is a great way to avoid that. So these are my Frio cases, I have three,
you can see there are some different sizes here
because the Frio pouches they do come in different sizes. So these are for insulin pens,
you'll see they'll fit at least two insulin pens in one of these,
way more in one of the larger ones,
but you can also get smaller pouches for example for insulin vials.
Some of the Frio pouches have a zipper, see like this, and some of them don't, like this,
it doesn't really matter that's more of a design feature,
it does not impact their functionality.
The brilliant part about the Frio pouch is actually this inner pouch
so let me show you. So in this inner pouch, that is filled with little crystals
and you see right now it's really flat because the crystals are not activated
so that means it's not cooling just yet but all you need
to do is you need to submerge this inner pouch, only, in water
and these little crystals will gel
and this patch will gel up, I’ll show you what that looks like in a little bit, they will gel
up and they will keep your medication cold.
So the promise is that they will keep your insulin at a
temperature of 18 to 26 degrees celsius so that's 64.4 to 78.7 Fahrenheit,
for up to 48 hours.
Even though the Frio manufacturer only promises up to 48 hours of cooling time
I've actually found that this product will continue to cool for 5 to 7 days
and after that time, of course, I just resubmerge the pouch in water
and it will start to cool again. And what I really like is I don't
need access to a fridge or freezer for this product to work, I can be in the wilderness
for a week and just throw the inner pouch in the stream, the little crystals will gel
and I have an activated cooling product.
Frio has been my go-to for years especially when flying
because these are just little crystals that gel, it's not actually water or ice packs,
the TSA, or the airport security,
has not had an issue with me bringing this along with me on board my flights.
It has also been great for trips where we've stayed in hotels that did not have a fridge
or we didn't quite trust the temperature in the fridge in the room
Okay let me show you how it works, first thing you just take out the inner pouch
see now it's all flat and then simply submerge it in cold water
for 5 to 12 minutes
I’m just going to leave that
I left it in there for 10 minutes. Let’s take it out
Squeeze it
and you can see how much the crystals have gelled
put away the water
then you want to just dry it
it's not super wet but dry it off, get your insulin pen
pop that in there, see there's room for two
put it in the outer case
and you're good to go.
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